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Author:
Mike C
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Date Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 00:20:11
In reply to:
Frank
's message, "Re: BGO" on Wed May 07, 2008 04:22:26
It's interesting to put yourself in the place of any reissue company releasing tracks that can be more than fifty years old.
You're entitled to rely on the correct versions being supplied by the owning company. Clearly, this doesn't always happen, maybe due to bad documentation or lack of knowledge by a younger generation in the industry. Do reissue companies have people who, by listening, can tell the difference between very similar versions of the same track? And for many different artists? I doubt it. How does any reissue company ensure they are releasing the correct track? Take Ace and the very large range of stuff they have put out. How do you do it? There must be a good deal of reliance that you have been supplied with the real thing from source.
As these tracks get older and as people concerned in the record industry get older or fade away isn't it inevitable that the likelihood of these mistakes will proliferate? We fairly recently had the example of a veteran British DJ who apparently didn't know a Buddy Holly "Picks overdub" from the real thing.
I can easily see how this sort of thing can happen and wouldn't rush to join the queue slagging off BGO who are not the only people to have made errors like this and who at least corrected errors when told about them and in my view have performed a valuable service in faithfully adhering to original album formats - sequencing, notes, art work etc.
What about the future? Twenty years from now, who will be here to sort out the genuine Holly master versions from the other stuff? One very important reason, perhaps, to carry on hoping for the definitive box set as worked on and documented by recognised authorities such as Griggs/Beecher/Ingman etc.
Mike
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